ProductsXMLSpyEdition Comparison

This table shows the features included in the Enterprise Professional, and Standard Editions of XMLSpy® 2009. Please use this as a guide to determine the edition that is most suitable for your needs.

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XML Editing & Validation
Validation & well-formedness checking
Text view with syntax coloring & code completion
Grid view with code completion
Authentic e-Forms view
Browser view
Project management with source control system support
Find & replace across a project and/or multiple files
XML differencing
XML Schema / DTD Tools
Graphical XML Schema Editor
Sample instance generation from Schema/DTD
DTD <=> XML Schema conversion
Database schema <=> XML Schema conversion
Schema/DTD generation from use cases
XML Schema documentation
Schema-based code generation
XSLT 1.0/2.0 Tools
XSLT editor
XSLT Info window
XSL Outline window
XSLT debugger
Support for Java, C#, JavaScript, VBScript in XSLT
XSLT profiler
CSS editor
XPath 1.0/2.0 Tools
XPath Analyzer
Intelligent XPath auto-completion
Automatic XPath generation for XML nodes
XPath execution across a project and/or multiple files
XQuery Tools
XQuery Editor
XQuery Debugger
XQuery Profiler
Supported Databases
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2000, 2005, 2008
IBM DB2® 8, 9
IBM DB2 for iSeries® v5.4
Oracle® 9i, 10g, 11g
Sybase® 12
MySQL® 4, 5
PostgreSQL 8
Microsoft Access™ 2003, 2007
Office 2007 / OOXML Tools
Viewing & editing OOXML in Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007
Transforming OOXML with XSLT
Processing OOXML with XQuery
XBRL Tools
Validation & editing of XBRL instance files
Graphical XBRL Taxonomy Editor
Web Services Tools
Graphical WSDL editor
WSDL documentation generator
SOAP 1.1/1.2 client
SOAP debugger
Program Code Generation
Royalty-free code generation in Java, C#, C++
Automation Support
OLE support
ActiveX Control
Command-line interface
Global Resources
Configure / switch to multiple deployment environments
Deep integration with MissionKit tools
Multi-purpose IDE Integration
Visual Studio® integration
Eclipse integration